Recs if you like The Moviegoer...

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

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for this list, i am specifically looking into creating an extensive list of novels whose narratives center in some way film as an art or an industry. these are fictional explorations of what it means to make, love, fear, consume, be consumed by cinema.

books from all US states and territories. asking for recommendations! these books must a) be written by an author with a strong connection to the state or territory and b) take place largely in the state or territory. i want to try to prioritize, whenever possible, underrepresented voices / voices that america’s regime tries to silence.

please lmk if any of these authors or texts aren’t good representation.

i will comment a list with each state/territory + its associated book!

book recs for blue readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically

Books that take place in New Orleans, Louisiana

Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.

Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.

(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)

A course syllabus for David Foster Wallace's class "English 170R-Selected Obscure/Eclectic Fictions" Spring '03

Fiction books of varying genres that primarily take place in The Big Easy. Not all books here are by NOLA locals. Only one book per author to keep things interesting!

... a slop is a book that can't get no love from me... If you're tired of all the slop being printed, here are some grade A classics to read instead.